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The Girl with the Amber Comb by Linda Finlay

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/366785 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/366785] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Girl with the Amber Comb Author: Linda Finlay Narrator: Charlie Sanderson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 49 minutes Release date: March 19, 2020 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A heart-warming tale from the Queen of West Country Saga, LINDA FINLAY… The Girl with the Amber Comb, will she ever return home? Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Dilly Court says Linda Finlay is ‘sure to delight’! Orphaned at birth, Eliza lives with her beloved Grandparents in a waterlogged Somerset cottage surrounded by willow beds where she ekes out a living making laundry baskets and eel traps. Although poor she is content, until childhood friend Clem, regales her with tales of his adventures along the river and she begins to wonder what life is like beyond the Droves. When fate brings handsome, wealthy Theo to her workshop she is instantly attracted and a rosy future beyond the Droves beckons. Only things don't go to plan and naive Eliza finds herself in Lavender House where she is expected to care for gentlemen in a way she never imagined. Forced to flee for her life, she ends up in a woollen mill run by a corrupt foreman, working for crumbs and pennies with only her grandmother's comb in her pocket. Now she knows what matters in life – but is it too late? And will she ever be able to return home to those who love her? Set amongst the stunning wetlands of Somerset, this tale of triumph and tragedy will delight fans of Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court. Praise for The Girl with the Amber Comb: ‘A treasure of a read with romance, rural history and a happy ending’ Devon Life ‘Evocative’ Frost Magazine ‘Rich with carefully drawn characters who really come to life in the hands of this skilled writer’ NorthernReader Praise for Linda Finlay: ‘Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans’ Dilly Court 'Warm and atmospheric, you can practically taste the sea breeze' The Express

Greenwood: A Novel by Michael Christie

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367194 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/367194] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Greenwood: A Novel Author: Michael Christie Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 25, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • “A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “There are plenty of visionary moments laced into [Christie’s] shape-shifting narrative. . . . Greenwood penetrates to the core of things.”—The New York Times Book Review It’s 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world’s last remaining forests. It’s 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It’s 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father’s once vast and violent timber empire. It’s 1934 and Everett Greenwood is alone, as usual, in his maple-syrup camp squat, when he hears the cries of an abandoned infant and gets tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie’s effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. A shining, intricate clockwork of a novel, Greenwood is a rain-soaked and sun-dappled story of the bonds and breaking points of money and love, wood, and blood—and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.

Wartime for the Shop Girls by Joanna Toye

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368391 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/368391] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wartime for the Shop Girls Series: #2 of The Shop Girls Author: Joanna Toye Narrator: Becky Wright Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 23, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: War brings changes three friends could never foresee… ‘Highly recommended’ Anna Jacobs ‘A warm domestic drama’ People’s Friend It’s 1942 and as shortages of staff – and goods – begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales junior at Marlow’s department store. Bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, and nothing can prepare Lily for the secrets that come tumbling out when her favourite brother comes home on leave… Somehow, she must keep smiling through. Community, family and friends rally round as her home town – and the whole country – is tested once again.

Workhouse Girl by Holly Green

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359013 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359013] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Workhouse Girl Author: Holly Green Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 9 minutes Release date: January 9, 2020 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Can she escape her past? Patty Jenkins has come a long way from her poverty-stricken days in Brownlow workhouse. She now has a coveted position in the kitchens at Freeman's Department store in Liverpool and even the prospect of advancement. For Patty has always enjoyed baking and her flair for it has caught the attention of the store owner who intends to have her create elaborate cakes and pastries to serve at afternoon tea to Freeman's clientele. But when you're a workhouse girl you can never quite forgive your past and when you've fallen on hard times before, you're always aware how easy it is to lose everything... © Holly Green 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel by Thomas Keneally

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359165 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359165] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book of Science and Antiquities: A Novel Author: Thomas Keneally Narrator: Paul Haley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: December 10, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler’s List, brings his “insightful and nimble prose” (The New York Times Book Review) to this exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, set in both prehistoric and modern Australia. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, Shelby Apple is obsessed with reimagining the full story of the Learned Man—a prehistoric man whose remains are believed to be the link between Africa and ancient Australia. From Vietnam to northern Africa and the Australian Outback, Shelby searches for understanding of this enigmatic man from the ancient past, unaware that the two men share a great deal in common. Some 40,000 years in the past, the Learned Man has made his home alongside other members of his tribe. Complex and deeply introspective, he reveres tradition, loyalty, and respect for his ancestors. Willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good, the Learned Man cannot conceive that a man millennia later could relate to him in heart and feeling. In this “meditation on last things, but still electric with life, passion and appetite” (The Australian), Thomas Keneally weaves an extraordinary dual narrative that effortlessly transports you around the world and across time, offering “a hymn to idealism and to human development” (Sydney Morning Herald).